Next Week @ TC

09/10/2026

• Grad Celebration Day important information - Next Thursday 15 October

• TC Market 17 November - stallholders and volunteers wanted

• VCE Exam Preparation - Holiday Exam Timetable

• Assessment and Reporting - Term 4

• WASHI - Round 3

• Term 4 Respectful Relationships and Sexuality Education

• 2026 Science Week ‘Seeds of Science’ Photography Competition Winners

• Save the Date - Permaculture Garden Working Bee

Reminders:

• Donate Christmas Gifts for families struggling - extended to 17 September

It's an exciting time at TC as we prepare to farewell our graduating students!

Next Wednesday, our Grads will attend their final classes, before we come together on Thursday to recognise their hard work, commitment and achievements at Grad Celebration Day, followed by Grad Celebration Night.

These events are an important milestone for our graduating students and a wonderful opportunity for the whole TC community to celebrate their journey.

Important information for Thursday:

• Security: Security personnel will be onsite from 4.30pm Wednesday until 7.00am Thursday, when staff arrive.

• Grad Breakfast: Grads are invited onsite from 8.00am to enjoy breakfast together.

• Arrival: Please allow plenty of time to arrive and make your way to your designated location.

• Grad guests: Each Grad's two invited guests may enter the Sports Centre from 8.50am.

• Whole-school assembly: The celebration assembly will take place during Period 1, from 9.10am to 10.20am.

Student arrangements:

School buildings will open to students at 9.00am to allow them to drop off their bags before the assembly.

• Entry students: Please make your way to the PAC, where the assembly will be livestreamed.

• FLE students: Please proceed to the Sports Centre to attend the assembly in person.

• Students requiring a quieter environment: Students who may find large crowds or loud noise overwhelming are welcome to go to S-Wing.

We look forward to celebrating this special occasion with our Grads and the wider TC community!

The TC Market is back on 17 November, from 4–6pm, and it's time to get involved!

The market is a fantastic opportunity to bring our school community together for an afternoon of live music, food and drinks, shopping and entertainment. With stalls offering everything from arts and crafts to vintage, plants and more, there's always plenty to see and enjoy.

Any TC student or parent/carer is welcome to run a stall, whether you're selling handmade creations, pre-loved items or something else entirely. We do have a sustainability focus and ask stallholders to consider the amount of plastic they use both in their product and as packaging.

We're also looking for volunteers to help make the event a success.

The TC Market is always a great atmosphere and a wonderful way to connect with others, get involved in school life and support the TC community.

Interested in holding a stall or volunteering? Please complete the form below to register your interest.

VCE Exam Preparation - Holiday Exam Timetable

As we come to the end of Unit 4, our focus begins to shift towards preparing students for their VCE examinations.

Thorough and consistent exam preparation is an important part of achieving success, and we want to ensure that every student sitting a VCE examination has the best possible opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

As part of this preparation, we will be running practice examinations and some revision sessions during the Term 3/Term 4 holiday period.

We strongly encourage all students to attend these sessions. One of the most effective ways students can prepare for their examinations is by completing practice exams and receiving feedback on their responses. This provides students with an opportunity to become familiar with the exam format, practise working under timed conditions, identify areas for improvement and refine their examination strategies.

Every student intending to sit a VCE examination should aim to complete at least one full practice examination and receive feedback on their work.

Please see the holiday trial examination timetable below for details of the sessions available.

📅 Monday 28th September:

• 9am – 12pm: Mathematical Methods

• 1pm – 3.15pm: History: Revolutions & Business Management

📅 Tuesday 29th September:

• 9am – 12.15pm: English & EAL

• 1pm – 3.15pm: Health and Human Development & Legal Studies

• 12.30pm – 3.15pm: Physics

📅 Wednesday 30th September:

• 9am – 12pm: Psychology & Theatre Studies Session 1

• 12.30pm – 3.30pm: Sociology & Theatre Studies Session 2

• 1pm – 3.15pm Environmental Science

📅 Thursday 1st October:

• 9am – 12pm: Literature Session 1 & Specialist Maths

• 1.15pm – 3.30pm: Literature Session 2

• 1pm – 3.30pm: Biology Revision 

This message is for our students and their families as we begin Term 4. As a result of earlier industrial action, we have refined our reporting practices for the duration of the year.

To ensure we continue to provide consistent feedback to students on their progress and next steps for growth, all classes from Entry to VCE will continue to report on learning tasks and SACs against a rubric, until the end of the school year. VCE SACs will also have an accompanying performance band or mark. These rubrics can be accessed at any time via Compass and will also appear on the end of semester report.

We have been using rubrics as a means of assessing student achievement since 2025. Best practice is to share and explain the rubric at the beginning of a unit of work or task, so that students know exactly what skills they are developing and what it is they need to be able to demonstrate.

Staff still provide formative feedback during class, on practice tasks, and on OneNote (depending on what suits the needs of the specific class), and often this will come in the form of written and/or verbal feedback.

All students should now have feedback on at least one learning task or SAC completed per subject that they take. Because it will not appear as a comment, as in previous years, it is important to explain this change.

If you have any questions about the rubric, please reach out to the relevant classroom teacher.

Thank you for your support as we continue to evolve and develop practices that best serve our students and the broader TC community. 

Cassidy Trousdale
Learning Director: Assessment and Reporting

After a hiatus due to the industrial action, the Work and Study Habits Index is returning!

As we are always aiming to be responsive to feedback in a considered and collaborative way, we have decided to re-label the criterion currently labelled ‘Respect’ in the WASHI. As the descriptors for this criterion remain focused on students’ continued respect for the learning environment and the learning of others, we have chosen to label the criterion ‘Contribution to the Learning Environment’.

The descriptor for ‘Contribution to the Learning Environment’ refers to the habit of contributing positively and not engaging in behaviours that will limit the learning of others. Contributions might include:

• Treating others as you wish to be treated

• Following staff instructions

• Getting involved in collaborative activities

• Helping others

• Being inclusive and supportive

• And not disrupting the learning of others

The expectations and descriptions of this criterion will remain the same, the only thing that is changing is the label ‘Respect’ to reduce confusion.

One other thing to note is the attendance percentage data that comes with the WASHI. This reflects in class attendance, meaning it shows the number of times a student has been in class over the period being assessed, regardless of school approved absences. Because students at TC have so many extra-curricular, cross-curricular and school-run opportunities – such as school sports, concert rehearsals, or excursions – this means that the % may appear low. However, if you are concerned about this, you can go to Compass and check the attendance data there.

We have chosen to show the in-class percentage alongside the WASHI as this provides context for how many times a staff member will have seen their students in the WASHI cycle and therefore inform their assessment of frequency regarding the work and study habits.

This WASHI will reflect students’ habits over the past term, and will be released at the end of week 10. If you have any questions about this, please contact Cassidy Trousdale at CTR@tc.vic.edu.au

Thank you for your ongoing support with our WASHIs and student development.

Dear Parents and Carers,  

In Term 4 we will be continuing our Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) and Respectful Relationships program across our Flexible Learning Environment FLE (FLE) classes, EAL, MAP and Entry students (week 5-8), one session each term across the year. Classes have been designed to be developmentally and age appropriate and include consent education for all students. FLE3 classes have begun in Week 1-2.  

RSE this term will continue to build on prior learning of respectful and healthy relationships with the focus on the merging of in-real-life and online/technology-based relationships including AI generated content. Teaching and learning activities aim to explore rights and responsibilities of people to experience respectful, safe, inclusive and healthy relationships free of coercion, control or harm in inter-personal and digital environments.   

Term 4 overview  

FLE1/MAP/EAL1: Developing identity and self: Personal values, emerging sexuality and boundaries and inter-personal relationships. Key learnings include exploring concept of self, personal development: physical, social and emotional and navigating inter-personal relationships. the great, good and what to do when/if problems/issues arise. How to navigate friendships and intimate relationships in a safe and supportive environment, and help-seeking behaviours.   

FLE2/MAP/EAL2/3: Healthy relationships and consent. Focus on consent education and physical, social and emotional wellbeing including bodily autonomy.  The class will unpack scenarios, and activities, focus on affirmative consent, laws, ethics and responsibilities.  

FLE3/4/EAL: Respectful and healthy relationships IRL and online: explore consent, mutuality, communication and respect in relation to sexual content online. Including affirmative consent, respectful, legal and ethical understandings accurate vs misinformation, and potentially harmful content and behaviours, help-seeking.   

FLE4: Connect session: building on from Term 3 sessions: consensual behaviour, and non-consensual, creating safe and inclusive environments for all people, bystander and upstander, services and organisations to seek help, including trusted adults at home, school-based services and external services including 1800RESPECT, ECASA, VicPolice.  

Coming in Term 4….Entry Students: Week 5-8  In-class program in ‘Health and PE’ classes revising and building on students’ prior knowledge of puberty and human development, relationships and protective behaviours/bodily autonomy and consent.  More information to follow for Entry parents and carers. 

At TC we take a whole school approach and believe that relationships and sexuality education is a shared responsibility. We encourage parents/carers to be actively involved, having conversations with your child according to your own values and beliefs. The Victorian Department of Education has great resources to assist parents with these discussions - https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/physed/Pages/forparents.aspx 

eSafety Commissioner have many upcoming webinars and useful resources for parents/carers, please find details here: https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/webinars 

The RSE classes will be delivered by TC staff experienced in this teaching area, and we look forward to working with our young people to strengthen their skills and understanding of RSE across their developmental stages.  

We encourage and strongly recommend that all students attend these important life-skills classes. However, if you would prefer your child not to attend, please email your child’s Community Executive Team (CET) to opt out by Tuesday 13 October. Students who are not participating will go to another supervised space during these sessions.    

BLUE@tc.vic.edu.au  
RED@tc.vic.edu.au  
GOLD@tc.vic.edu.au  
GREEN@tc.vic.edu.au   

Andrea Carydias
TC Teacher: Health Promotion/Relationships and Sexuality Education  

As part of Science Week, students were invited to submit a photograph inspired by this year’s theme, “Seeds of Science.” Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter and share their images. The entries captured the beauty and wonder of the natural world, highlighting how science can be found in the plants, landscapes, and living things around us every day. We also thank everyone who participated in the voting process and helped select this year’s winning photographs. We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2026 Science Week Photo Competition. 

Congratulations to this year’s winners:
Best Science Photo: Ethan Falcke

Best Action Photo: Indi Travis

People’s Choice Award: Sophie Walter 

Ethan, Indi and Sophie will receive a canteen voucher and all winning photos will be framed. 

Please save the date and join us for our upcoming Permaculture Garden Working Bee!

Our garden is a valuable part of the TC community, providing a space for students to connect with nature, learn about sustainability and develop practical skills.

Contributions from students and families play an important role in keeping our garden healthy, productive and thriving. By lending a hand, you'll help maintain and improve this shared space, while enjoying some time outdoors, connecting with other members of the TC community and making a positive contribution to our school.

Every helping hand makes a difference, and we welcome contributions of any size. We hope to see you there!

Thank you TC Community for supporting our Christmas Gift drive, your generosity is greatly appreciated. So, we’ve decided to extend collections until the end of term.

I know it’s super early but if you have gift, book, Christmas decoration that you’ve purchased and never used; would you consider donating to a family that may not be able to afford to buy any Christmas gifts this year?
New items only - but if you have toys🧸, clothes👚, books📕, decorations⭐, wrapping paper🎁 please drop off to the PAC before 17 September. 🎄🎅🎁🤶

Any questions please feel free to contact Kyle: KCL@tc.vic.edu.au